Squirrel.windows: Using UpdateManager with Azure blob storage

[SeeUnsharp]

Hi I am struggling a bit with updating my app based on Azure blob storage with an SAS URL. I push my release files directly from VSTS to my blob container.

My URL looks like this: https://**.blob.core.windows.net/suris-releases?TOKEN&comp=list&restype=container

which gives me this XML page:

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<EnumerationResults ServiceEndpoint="https://****.blob.core.windows.net/" ContainerName="CONTAINERNAME">
<Blobs>
<Blob>
<Name>RELEASES</Name>
<Properties>
<Last-Modified>Mon, 28 May 2018 14:21:48 GMT</Last-Modified>
<Etag>0x8D5C4A6592908BE</Etag>
<Content-Length>75</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
<Content-Encoding/>
<Content-Language/>
<Content-MD5>****</Content-MD5>
<Cache-Control/>
<Content-Disposition/>
<BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
<AccessTier>Hot</AccessTier>
<AccessTierInferred>true</AccessTierInferred>
<LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
<LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
<ServerEncrypted>true</ServerEncrypted>
</Properties>
</Blob>
<Blob>
<Name>Setup.exe</Name>
<Properties>
<Last-Modified>Mon, 28 May 2018 14:21:49 GMT</Last-Modified>
<Etag>0x8D5C4A65A1C6BB8</Etag>
<Content-Length>69489664</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
<Content-Encoding/>
<Content-Language/>
<Content-MD5>****</Content-MD5>
<Cache-Control/>
<Content-Disposition/>
<BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
<AccessTier>Hot</AccessTier>
<AccessTierInferred>true</AccessTierInferred>
<LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
<LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
<ServerEncrypted>true</ServerEncrypted>
</Properties>
</Blob>
<Blob>
<Name>Setup.msi</Name>
<Properties>
<Last-Modified>Mon, 28 May 2018 14:21:49 GMT</Last-Modified>
<Etag>0x8D5C4A65A1FC748</Etag>
<Content-Length>69521408</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
<Content-Encoding/>
<Content-Language/>
<Content-MD5>****</Content-MD5>
<Cache-Control/>
<Content-Disposition/>
<BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
<AccessTier>Hot</AccessTier>
<AccessTierInferred>true</AccessTierInferred>
<LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
<LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
<ServerEncrypted>true</ServerEncrypted>
</Properties>
</Blob>
<Blob>
<Name>Suris-0.1.0-full.nupkg</Name>
<Properties>
<Last-Modified>Mon, 28 May 2018 14:21:49 GMT</Last-Modified>
<Etag>0x8D5C4A65A1FC748</Etag>
<Content-Length>68915371</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
<Content-Encoding/>
<Content-Language/>
<Content-MD5>****</Content-MD5>
<Cache-Control/>
<Content-Disposition/>
<BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
<AccessTier>Hot</AccessTier>
<AccessTierInferred>true</AccessTierInferred>
<LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
<LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
<ServerEncrypted>true</ServerEncrypted>
</Properties>
</Blob>
</Blobs>
<NextMarker/>
</EnumerationResults>

I guess this is not a compatible URL for UpdateManager right?
Could anybody help me how I can use this blob storage with Squirrel?

Thanks!

[SeeUnsharp]

Small update... phewww.

I created a Azure Data Factory Task which copies the release blobs to my file storage folder. Then I created a function app which looks every 3 minutes for blob changes and fires the data factory trigger when there are new or updated blobs. Now i can access the Azure File Share like a network share. Pretty big workflow just to access some files :)

[anaisbetts]

I recommend using S3 I guess? This part of Azure sounds like a tire fire

[SEAHood]

I'm having this exact issue, we're storing all of the nupkg files and RELEASES file in blob storage in Azure - to access them we have to use a SAS token to avoid unauthorised access.

It seems as though squirrel can check for updates fine but when downloading the file, it strips off the query string. Is there any way around this?

Relevant logs:

2018-10-10 16:10:15> FileDownloader: Downloading url: https://<blob container url>/RELEASES?<redacted token query string>&localVersion=0.0.10&arch=amd64
2018-10-10 16:10:15> FileDownloader: Downloading file: https://<blob container url>/program-0.0.11-full.nupkg

[kalpeshah]

hi @SEAHood

Did you find any solution to this problem ?

I am struggling with it as well.

Thanks

-Kalpesh

[SEAHood]

hi @SEAHood

Did you find any solution to this problem ?

I am struggling with it as well.

Thanks

-Kalpesh

Unfortunately not Kalpesh, we used an anonymous access link for the files for a while but in the end we scrapped the project. It's been a while though so there may now be a solution, but not to my knowledge!
Best of luck
Sam

[kalpeshah]

Thanks Sam.

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hi @SEAHoodhttps://github.com/SEAHood

Did you find any solution to this problem ?

I am struggling with it as well.

Thanks

-Kalpesh

Unfortunately not Kalpesh, we used an anonymous access link for the files for a while but in the end we scrapped the project. It's been a while though so there may now be a solution, but not to my knowledge!
Best of luck
Sam

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[ragbn]

You can construct webclient object with blob querystring namevalue pairs and pass it to updatemanager with url.

        var client = new WebClient();
        NameValueCollection col = new NameValueCollection();
        col.Add("sv","2019-10-10");
        col.Add("ss","xx");
        col.Add("srt","xxx");
        col.Add("sp","xxx");
        col.Add("se","xxx");
        col.Add("st","xxx");
        col.Add("spr","xxx");
        col.Add("sig","xxxxx");
        client.QueryString = col;
        var fileDownloader = new Squirrel.FileDownloader(client);
       using (var manager = new UpdateManager("https://blobname.blob.core.windows.net/container?yoursastoken", urlDownloader: fileDownloader);

[frederikolsen88]

Thank you, @ragbn! I can confirm that the above approach works.